CARL
KISSELMAN—Among the younger members of the legal profession who are
prepared to fill the ranks as the older and noted men of the legal
fraternity come to years of retirement, is Carl Kisselman, who was
admitted to the bar of the State of New Jerseyin
February, 1922. David Kisselman,
father of Carl Kisselman, was
born in the Ukraine district of Russia, and after receiving a practical
education in the local schools served an apprenticeship in the Russian
Army. He saw no active service, and in 1871, when he was eighteen years of
age came to America and located in Camden, where he engaged in the real
estate and insurance business, opening an office at No. 1019 South Fifth
Street. He married Dora Handle, also a native of Russia.

Carl
Kisselman, son of David and Dora (Handle) Kisselman, was born in Elmer,
New Jersey, April 23, 1899. After attending the Washington Grammar School
of Camden, from which he graduated in 1914, he entered Camden High School,
and graduated with the June class of 1918. He was now ready to begin his
professional study and he matriculated in the University of Pennsylvania,
but before completing the course there made a change and became a student
in Temple University of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Before his University
course was completed he passed the examinations for admission to the New
Jersey bar and later, while still a student, began reading law under the
direction of
Albert
S. Woodruff. He was admitted in February, 1922, and at
once prepared to engage in general practice at law.

Politically, Mr.
Kisselman gives his support to the Republican party. During the period of
the participation of the United States in the World War he was a member of
the Students' Army Training Corps, but, of course, saw no active service.
He is a member of Camden Lodge, No. 293, Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, and is an interested member of the Sixth Ward Republican Club.His religious
affiliation is with the Reformed Hebrew Church.

C.F.
SQUILLACE GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCEYear in
Prison Withdrawn Because Lawyer Has Made Restitution

After
he had changed his pleas of not guilty to non vultCharles
F. Squillace, former Camden attorney, was given one year in state
prison by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday afternoon and then the sentence
was suspended.

Squillace
was charged with embezzlement, larceny as bailee and issuing a worthless
check. He had been a fugitive from justice six years. The court suspended
sentence after it was announced he had made restitution to former clients.

When
he went into court yesterday Squillace entered pleas of not guilty to five
indictments through his attorney, Carl
Kisselman.

Squillace
said he would have pleaded non vult at the morning session if he
could have reached an agreement with a former client, Mrs. Marie Fanelli,
West Berlin. He passed a worthless check for $600 on her and she demanded
six years interest through her attorney, Francis G. Homan. A compromise
was affected.

Fugitive
Since 1923

A
fugitive from justice since the December, 1923; grand jury returned nine
true bills against him, Squillace was arrested in Washington, D. C., last
July by County Detective Fiore
Troncone, who found him and his wife
operating a beauty shop.

Squillace
is said to have readily admitted his guilt and agreed to return to this
city and face the consequences. He was released in $3500 bail on August 3,
1929, his bond being signed by Ralph Cavallo of Kaighn Avenue near
Third Street. '

During
the time that Squillace has been at liberty, his lawyers declare he has
been making weekly payments on the total $2865 which he is charged with
diverting from funds clients entrusted to him for real estate transactions
in 1922 and 1923.

Rather
than face disbarment proceedings, Squillace resigned as a member of the
Camden County Bar Association shortly before he hastily left Camden after
discovering that he could not repay the money which he had received and
used in several personal real estate deals. -

David
Baird, Jr., Republican nominee for governor, will make his final
appearance in the current election campaign Monday night, in his "own
home town," when he will address a monster rally at the Hebrew
Republican League, at the Talmud
Torah, 621 Kaighn
avenue.

In
addition to former Senator Baird,
speakers at the Jewish rally will include Mrs. Elizabeth C. Verga,
Republican state committeewoman and vice chairman of the county committee;
Congressman Charles A.
Wolverton, Congressman Benjamin Golder, of Pennsylvania, and State
Senator Samuel Salus, of Pennsylvania.

Selling
tickets for his own testimonial dinner is a distinction enjoyed by
Assistant Prosecutor Rocco
Palese.

The
dinner, arranged as a testimonial to "the Polish Ambassador,"
proved a surprise to Palese last night when 28 friends, members of the
"Srelsihc Club," let him share the secret in Hotel Walt
Whitman.

The
dinner, among other reasons, was tendered him because he was the only
member of the club to put together a Courier-Post "Hi-Ho"
puzzle. For a week prior to the affair he sold tickets to friends, not
knowing the affair was
in his honor.

With
former Judge John B. Kates as toastmaster, wit and repartee passed the
festive board, while entertainment was furnished by Bobby Heath and
Billy James, famous writers of popular songs.

When
counsel for Charles Edgar "Blondy" Wallace failed in U.S.
district court here yesterday to produce an affidavit to the effect that
Wallace was in a hospital and unable to respond to the charge of evading
income tax payments, the government made protest.

Carl
Kisselman, attorney for the
one-time University of Pennsylvania football player and coach, declared
earlier in the day that Wallace was in a Connecticut hospital undergoing
treatment for diabetes. Kisselma
was told to produce an affidavit to that effect for the afternoon session
of court.

When
the affidavit failed to arrive Judge John Boyd Avis postponed the case
indefinitely over the protest of Assistant U. S. District Attorney Isadore
S. Worth, who said the government had gone to considerable expense to have
50 witnesses ready to testify, asked that the action be continued through
the day, pending some word from hospital authorities.

Wallace
was one of four men whose cases were before the court yesterday on the
same charge, income tax dodging, as a result of seizure of books and
effects of the Egg Harbor Brewery and revelations made through the
records, according to government investigators. The alleged evasions were
In 1929 and 1930.

Worth
contended that Wallace already had been given many "breaks" and
that action must be had forth with Kisselman admitted that he had no
authority to enter a guilty plea for his client, but said that was
admittedly what the plea would be.

The
others whose names were called to enter pleas to indictment were Edwin N.
O'Donnell, 50, president of the Egg Harbor Beverage Company, operators of
the now closed Egg. Harbor Brewery ; James J. Curran, 45, of 436 Liverpool
Avenue, Egg Harbor City, and William C. Muller, 49, also of Egg Harbor.

All
four were indicted following seizure of the books and records of the Egg
Harbor Brewery which disclosed, according to the government, income tax
evasions in 1929 and 1930.

O'Donnell,
son of former Postmaster James O'Donnell, of Hammonton, was accused of
evading payment of $11,258.86 in 1929 and $24, 474.66 in 1930.

Represented
by former Judge William A, Carr, or Philadelphia, and Charles H. McCarthy,
Washington, D. C., attorney, O'Donnell retracted a plea of not guilty to
one of guilty.

The
change came following a conference between Carr, McCarthy and Worth, who
asked that an indictment of perjury be nolle prossed. Bail was continued
at $5000 while, at the request of counsel sentence was deferred to a date
to be fixed by Worth.

Wallace
is accused of evading payment to the government of $4196.72 in 1929 and
$1953.52 in 1930.

Curran,
indicted with the others, was represented in court by L.
Scott Cherchesky. In the morning he entered a plea of not guilty and
action was held up pending the arrival of a copy of the indictment from
Trenton. Curran is accused of evading payment of $195.63 in 1929 and
$785.24 in 1930. Cherchesky
entered a guilty plea for his client in the afternoon and sentence was
continued pending application to the government for a compromise payment.
Curran's bail was continued at $3000.

Muller's
action, through his attorney, Mark F. Casselman, was similar. He entered a
not guilty plea in the morning, pending arrival of a copy of the
indictment. Muller was accused of evading payments of $1204.04 in 1929 and
$135.89 in 1930, as allegedly revealed in the brewery records. Muller
entered a guilty plea in the afternoon, and his bail, $2000, was continued
with sentence pending settlement.

Camden
Courier-Post * June 29, 1933

‘BLONDY'
WALLACE TO APPEAR IN COURT

Charles
Edgar "Blondy" Wallace, one-time University of Pennsylvania
football player and coach, will appear before Federal District Judge John
Boyd Avis here tomorrow to answer charges of evasion of the federal income
tax.

This
was announced yesterday by Assistant U. S. Attorney Isidor S. Worth, of
Riverside, following receipt of word to that effect from Carl
Kisselman, counsel for Wallace.

Wallace
was to have appeared for trial on Monday but when his name was called his
attorney said he was confined to a Connecticut sanitarium where he is
being treated for diabetes. He promised to produce an affidavit to that
effect but instead told Worth that the defendant would come into court
Friday.

"Seizure
of the records of the Egg Harbor Brewery led to the indictment of Wallace
and four others for failure to pay income taxes on their profits amassed
from the brewery business in 1929 and 1930.

Camden
Courier-Post - June 29, 1933

8
IN CAMDEN PASS STATE BAR TESTS14 Others From South Jersey Given Right to
Practice Law

Nine
Camden law students and 14 others from South Jersey cities passed the
April state bar examinations and may practice as attorneys in New Jersey.

That
was announced at Trenton yesterday by Rue Brearley, secretary of the State
Bar Examiners. Brearley stated that in the entire state, 206 students
passed the tests. The counselor-at-law results were not announced.

Among
the other South Jersey students who were successful was Harold B. Wells,
Jr., son of Judge Harold B. Wells, of Bordentown. The others are: Fred A.
Gravino, John B. Wick and Frank Sahl, all of Woodbury; I. Harry Levin and
W. Howard Sharp, of Vineland; Wheeler Grey, William B. Brooks and Morgan
E. Thomas, of Atlantic City; Thomas H. Munyan and John E. Boswell of Ocean
City; Francis Tanner, Toms River; James Edward McGlincy, Bridgeport, and
Charles J. Berkowitz, Lakewood.

Police Judge
Mariano overruled police objections and postponed until
Wednesday morning the hearing of three men and a woman arrested as
the result of a gambling raid at 1149 Lansdowne avenue Saturday.

The request for a delay was made by Benjamin Asbell, defense lawyer,
who said he had been retained only late Saturday and had lacked an
opportunity to prepare his case.

Sergeant
Gus Koerner and Detective
Thomas Murphy, Jr., asked that the
case go on at once, saying they had enough evidence to hold the suspects
for the grand jury. Murphy said Safety Director Kobus had asked that
the hearing be held yesterday.

Judge
Mariano, however, said that Asbell's request was not unusual and
that attorneys should be allowed time to obtain their evidence or
witnesses. He continued the same bail which police set when the four
were arrested.

Lines to Tracks Seized

Koerner,
Murphy and Patrolman James McLaughlin said that horse race
betting was conducted on the second floor of the Lansdowne avenue
building, the ground floor of which is occupied by a grocery.

Several racing forms and four telephones with two direct wires to tracks
now in operation were seized, according to Koerner and
Murphy. The police first arrested Roland Flynn, 36, of 589
Carman
street; Neil Zeidman, 43, of 1064 Langham
avenue, and James O'Donal, 27, of 1119 Empire
avenue, and held them in $1000 bail for violating the State
crimes act.

Later Mrs. Rose Koplin, 37, who lives in an apartment over the store,
was taken into custody on the same charge and held in $500 bail. Mrs.
Koplin's brother, Milton Katz, posted cash bail for her release.

Murphy reported that $700 had been bet on race horses at the
establishment up until 3.30 p. m., Saturday, the time of the raid.

Camden Courier-Post - August
26, 1941

Henry
Magin Laid to Rest By War Veteran BuddiesTRUCKS
OF FLOWERS IN FUNERAL CORTEGE

Funeral services for City
Commissioner Henry Magin were held today with his colleagues in
official and veterans circles participating.

Services
were conducted in city commission chambers on the second floor of city
hall, in charge of Rev. Dr. W.W. Ridgeway, rector of St. Wilfrid's Episcopal
Church.

The casket was carried by war veteran
associates of the public works director, who died from a heart attack
Friday. A color guard from the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American
Legion preceded the casket, followed bythe four remaining members of the city commission,
Mayor George Brunner and commissioners E. George Aaron, Mrs.
Mary W. Kobus
and Dr. David S.
Rhone.

A guard of honor lined both sides of'
city hall steps, 22 policemen on one side and 22firemen on the other, representing Magin's age, 44
years.

Hundreds of men and women waited
outside the building to pay their respects as the solemn procession
filed by. Mayor Brunner had declared this morning a holiday for city
employees. The casket was borne by Thomas Jackson and Samuel Magill,
both past Legion commanders; Leon McCarty, past commander of August
Walter Chapter, Disabled American Veterans; Richard Jermyn, past
commander of Post 1270, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Benjamin P.
Thomas, past captain of Sparrow Ship No. 1269. V. F. W.; and William
Miller, past State commander, D. A. V.

Three trucks were required to carry
the floral pieces from the scene of the services to the National
Cemetery at Beverly, where burial took place.

An estimated 8000 persons from all walks of life paid their
respects to the late official by viewing the body as it
lay
in state in the commission chambers.

The throng of mourners of Camden city
and county was the largest to converge on a public building since the
funeral of Fire Chief Charles
Worthington, who was killed while fighting
a fire almost 20 years ago. His body was placed on public view in the
rotunda of the old county courthouse.

File Past Bier

A continuous progression of people
filed past the flag draped bier for more than three and one-half hours.
Scores of Republicans and hundreds of Democrats joined in the tribute.

Services were conducted by Camden
lodges of Elks and Moose. Military rites were conducted by the
Fairview Post, American Legion, of which Magin was a founder and past
commander. The tribute was led by Mitchell Halin, post commander, and C.
Richard Allen, past department commander.

James W. Conner, chief clerk of the
city water bureau and past State Commander of the V.F.W., conducted
rites at the grave.

Mayor Brunner and Commissioners
Kobus, Aaron, and
Rhone
came early and remained throughout the hours of
viewing. Mrs. Helen Magin, the widow, and daughter Helen, attired in
deep mourning, arrived shortly after 7:00 PM.

Embraces Widow, Daughter

Commissioner Kobus, who knelt in
prayer before the bier, arose and went over to Mrs. Magin and her
daughter. Mrs. Kobus
embraced and kissed the widow and daughter of the late commissioner.
They were in tears.

American Legion and V. F. W. members
in uniform alternated as members of the military guard of honor. A
detail of 50 policemen was under command of Acting Lieutenant John
Garrity. Fifty firemen, under supervision of Deputy Chief Walter
Mertz, assisted the patrolmen in handling the crowd, which at times
choked the stairways leading to the
second
floor.

Employees
of the various bureaus in the department of public works, headed by
Commissioner Magin, came in delegations with the highway bureau having
150, the largest number.

Frank
A. Abbott, acting director of the department, accompanied by James P.
Carr, superintendent of Streets;
led the
highway bureauemployees.
Abbott is deputy director of revenue and finance and first
assistant to Mayor Brunner. He was named by Brunner as
acting
director until the City Commission electsMr.
Magin's successor.

Outstanding
among the floral tributes was a six-toot broken circle of varied
flowers, an offering from Mayor Brunner and
Commissioners
Kobus, Aaron, andRhone.

A
floral chair was sent by the Camden Police and Firemen’s Association.
The word “Rest” was made up of flowers. The offering of the Veterans League
ofSouth
Jersey,
an organization formed by Commissioner Magin and of which
he
was the first president, was a large floral pillow.

The freeholders and county officials
gave a large floral basket. Floral tributes came from the employees of
the board of education, the RCA Manufacturing Company, the police and
fire bureaus, Pyne Point Athletic Association, the Elks, Moose and
several Democratic clubs.

The floral tributes came in such
numbers yesterday afternoon that Funeral Director Harry Leonard and his
assistants could not find room for them in the commission chamber
proper. They were banked on both sides, in the rear and over the casket.

Among prominent officials and
citizens who came to pay their respects were Congressman Charles A.
Wolverton and his son, Donnell, Assemblymen Joseph W. Cowgill and J. Frank Crawford, Sidney P.
McCord, city
comptroller, Thomas C. Schneider, president of Camden County Council No.
10, New Jersey Civil Service Association.

Others at Bier

Others were Sue Devinney, secretary
to Mrs. Kobus; Fred S. Caperoon; Henry Aitken, city sealer of weights
and measures, Horace R. Dixon, executive director of the Camden Housing
Authority; George I. Shaw, vice president of the board of education.

Sgt. Ray
Smith, chairman of the Elks
Crippled Children Committee and commander of East Camden Post, V.F.W.; Albert
Becker, commander of Camden County Post 126, Jewish War Veterans; Dr.
Howard E. Primas and Wilbur F. Dobbins, members of the Camden Housing
Authority; Postmaster Emma E.
Hyland; Samuel E. Fulton, member of the
Camden local assistance board.

Also
former Assemblyman Rocco Palese, former Freeholder Maurice Bart and
wife, County Detective James Mulligan, Deputy City Clerk William D.
Sayrs, Mary King, secretary to City Clerk Reesman, Charles W. Anderson
and John W. Diehl Jr., former members of the housing authority, Walter
P. Wolverton, chief clerk of the public works department; Thomas J.
Kenney, Maurice Hertz, Isadore Hermann, chief of the city tax title
bureau; S. Raymond Dobbs; acting chief of city property, John Oziekanski,
building inspector, Harry Langebein, city assessor.

Also John C. Trainor, member of the
Camden County Board of Elections; Antonio
Mecca, funeral director;
Alexander Feinberg, solicitor of the housing authority, former
Freeholder John T. Hanson, Sterling Parker and Paul Reihman, member of
the county park commission.

James O’Brien, commander of the
Camden Disabled American Veterans, was in charge of services by veterans
at the cemetery. Former Freeholder Edward J. Quinlan, county
vice-commander of the American Legion, directed last night memorial
services and was in charge of the firing squad at the grave.